About the Artwork
Mrs. Benjamin Hallowell
1766 or 1767
John Singleton Copley
1738-1815
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 47 × 37 1/2 inches (119.4 × 95.3 cm) Framed: 57 5/8 × 48 × 3 inches (146.4 × 121.9 × 7.6 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Fund, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund and Beatrice W. Rogers Fund
71.168
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
the sitter, Mary Boylston Hallowell
her daughter, Mary Hallowell Elmsley
her daughter, Mary Elmsley Bond
her daughter, Elizabeth Bond Coke
her son, George Elmsley Coke
his son, Basil Elmsley Coke
his daughter, Mrs. A. R. (Cassandra Coke) Wise
her son, Adam Nugent Wise
1971, Leger Galleries (London, England)
1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Jones, E.A. The Loyalists of Massachusetts: Their Memorials, Petitions, and Claims. London, 1930, p. 158.
Parker, Barbara Neville and Anne Bolling Wheeler. John Singleton Copely: American Portraits in Oils, Pasel, and Miniature. Boston, 1938, p. 95.
Prown, J.D. John Singleton Copley, 1774-1815, vol. 2. Cambridge, MA, 1966, pp. 54-56, 108, 124, 140, 142, 217 (fig. 190).
Hood, Graham, Kathleen Pyne, and Nancy Rivard. "American Paintings Acquired During the Last Decade." Bulletin of the DIA 55, 3 (1977): pp.70-72 (ill.).
Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 1: Works by Artists Born Before 1816. New York, 1991, pp. 59-60 (ill.).
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John Singleton Copley, Mrs. Benjamin Hallowell, 1766 or 1767, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Fund, et al., 71.168.
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